Lee Jun-ik

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Lee Jun-ik (2012)
Lee Jun-ik (2012)

Korean spelling
Hangeul 이준익
Hanja 李 濬 益
Revised
Romanization 		I Jun-ik
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Chunik

Lee Jun-ik (born September 25, 1959 in Seoul ) is a South Korean film director and producer. He is considered a specialist in commercial historical films among film critics. His film The King and the Clown became the most successful Korean film of all time in 2005, but was overtaken by Bong Joon-ho's film The Host a year later .

Life

Between 1993 and 2003, Lee attended film festivals and film markets to acquire foreign film licenses for distribution in South Korea . He met people who had no idea about Korea and asked him whether he was from North or South Korea. So Lee wanted to show the world more about Korea's culture, history and traditions and saw the film as the ideal opportunity to do so.

Lee's 10th film, Dongju, about the poet Yun Dong-ju , was made on a budget of just 500 million won . Yun Dong-ju lived at the time of the Japanese occupied Korea and expressed his opposition through poetry.

2017 was an anarchist from Colony published, a biopic about the anarchists Park Yeol, who after moving from March 1, 1919 by Tokyo ( Japan to went) directly against the Japanese Empire to protest. Director Lee Jun-ik set great store by historical accuracy and focused on the period from 1923 to 1926, when Koreans were attacked in Japan after the Great Kanto earthquake and Park Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko were imprisoned and charged as scapegoats . Both used the trial to draw attention to the massacre in which around 6,000 Koreans are believed to have been murdered.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Korean film , Lee Joon-ik made a short film entitled Chumo ( 추모 ) for the 100X100 series of the Korean Film Council.

Filmography (selection)

Director

producer

  • 1999: The Spy
  • 2000: The Anarchist
  • 2001: Hi, Dharma

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 박형기 : [Hallyu power] 'Movies are the best medium to tell stories of Korean culture, history and tradition'. In: The Korea Herald . January 26, 2016, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rumy Doo: [Herald Interview] Viewing history through an anarchist's eyes: Director Lee Joon-ik. In: The Korea Herald . June 26, 2017, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 《추모》 이준익 감독: 한국 영화 100 년 기념 영화 [100X100 _060 ] on YouTube , September 18, 2019, accessed on September 18, 2019.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Jun-ik is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Jun-ik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이준익 (Korean, Hangeul); 李 濬 益 (Hanja); I, Jun-ik (Revised Romanization); Yi, Chunik (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea